Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans want a dynamic, successful President with a 'moral flaw' to be hounded out of office by a group of hypocrites?" CAROL KRAINES Deerfield...
...heart of it. The strength of Morrison's book is her flowing prose and her ability to weave her story over time, but without her voice or that framework, the movie moves as slowly as molasses through its near three-hour running time. The other great flaw of Beloved is its failure to reconcile the way in which Morrison erases the line between reality and the supernatural. On the screen, the characters treat such extraordinary occurrences as flying dishes, moving tables and spirits as a part of everyday life--this distorts the film's focus in confusing fashion...
...Monday, it had mutated into a full-blown security crisis for Netscape and everyone who owns its browsers. As Brumleve demonstrates on his web page, it is possible to download a short, 30-line javascript program that will snatch information from a Netscape user's hard drive. Specifically, the flaw allows web sites to scan your cache without setting a cookie -- in other words, make off with a list of all those places, naughty and nice, where you've been surfing...
Saving Private Ryan is neither a great film nor Spielberg's best effort, mostly because of one significant flaw: a weak, almost nonexistent storyline. A troop of soldiers (led by Tom Hanks, earnest and convincing as always in this limited role) is ordered to seek out a private who, fighting somewhere in France, is unaware that his three brothers have been killed in action. The U.S. government wants to send Private Ryan home to his bereaved mother...
...mail programs such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Outlook 98 or Netscape Mail, you might want to be a bit more careful about opening your spam today. Both companies have acknowledged the existence of a serious security flaw in their programs that, according to tests, could allow hackers to mail viruses that will crash your computer or erase your hard drive. And if you think dumping messages straight in the trash keeps you safe, think again: The tests, conducted over the past month by Finnish researchers, showed that some viruses were activated by the very act of deleting -- even...